Who made this quote: "April is the cruelest month"?

Question

I think it was an author

Answer 1

Not absolutely sure, but T S Eliot comes to mind.

Answer 2

what they said

Answer 3

T. S. Eliot, "The Wasteland."

The Waste Land

[some Greek quote comes here]

I. THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD

APRIL is the cruellest month, breeding  

Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing  

Memory and desire, stirring  

Dull roots with spring rain.  

Winter kept us warm, covering          

Earth in forgetful snow, feeding  

A little life with dried tubers.  

Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee  

With a shower of rain; we stopped in the colonnade,  

And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten,    

And drank coffee, and talked for an hour.  

Bin gar keine Russin, stamm' aus Litauen, echt deutsch.  

And when we were children, staying at the archduke's,  

My cousin's, he took me out on a sled,  

And I was frightened. He said, Marie,  

Marie, hold on tight. And down we went.  

In the mountains, there you feel free.  

I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.  

  

What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow  

Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man,  

You cannot say, or guess, for you know only  

A heap of broken images, where the sun beats,  

And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,  

And the dry stone no sound of water. Only  

There is shadow under this red rock,    

(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),  

And I will show you something different from either  

Your shadow at morning striding behind you  

Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;  

I will show you fear in a handful of dust....

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Answer 4

Thomas Stearns Eliot made that quote;he is a poet.

"April is the cruelest month" is actually the first line of a poem called "The Waste Land"

It is his first publication in 1922